Amen! ❤🙏 I even got to witness a Eucharistic miracle myself

It’s from his SEEK 2015 talk “The Hour that Will Change Your Life,” found here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gt2nnKyc17LchIE.htmlsi=hkcrT8N9qOYhpwsn

I've watched it a lot and shared with my kiddos. It's great.

Watch the full video, Fr. Mike Schmitz: "The Hour That Will Change Your Life" | SEEK2015 on our channel, @FOCUSCatholic.

Sufficient for what? Might I add that if Jesus commands you to do something will you not do it? HIS GRACE works in you when you abide in Him

IT'S A JOKE

Jesus has the best sense of humor, I'm sure He 😅

First rule of public speaking, “Know your audience.” He knows his audience-I believe he’s speaking to a crowd of college kids … they’re laughing and listening. Were it a crowd of old folks like me, I doubt he would have used that joke to keep the audience’s attention.

Jesus has a sense of humour. I was helped by a suicide prevention society. So I bought a lottery ticket and said I’d give them it all. I forgot about the ticket and remembered about it after the draw. Before I went and looked at the results a voice in my head said “no matter what you give everything to the charity”. In my head I though if I win big I keep a small amount to buy a flat but give everything else away. Anyway. The thought of came and I agreed. I give it all away no matter what. I won. £30 God has a sense of humour.

@Michael-pw2td It's funny when catholics try to claim ownership of the Bible and tell Christians to practice things God calls abominations.

@@michellerodriguez4717 Nah, Jesus is NOT there… And why would I want to trap people? 😂 You believe what man tells you over the word of God. “You must be born again to even see the kingdom of God”

​@create773 You should read the whole thing, though, and not just puck it sentences here and there.

​@create773 the challenge is to sit in front of Jesus and tell him he's not there..

@@LauraBeeDannon not a challenge at all I tell him right now because he’s not there, in what you call the Eucharist; he lives in me! I don’t have to go through a human to have access to him, the cross did that, through the shed perfect blood of Jesus I have access to the Father! Sorry, I grew up Catholic and there’s nothing you can’t tell me to convince me otherwise, I used to believe what you believe because it’s what they told me. You never receive him when you take the wafer, you’ll try and try and never reach him on your own …and that in itself opens the door to a spirit of condemnation that you’ll never be good enough. You may feel him on the outside because he loves you and longs for you to invite him in. And you should!That, keeps you living the way you feel but never experiencing the true Lord of Lords. I do pray Catholics could see this. “You must be born again” John 3:1-5 Get Free!

@@LauraBeeDannon you know I do 😂 but you can have the last word, means nothing against the truth.

You see I do believe that and I’ve had arguments of if it’s the literal presence of Jesus. But I stumbled upon Eucharistic Miracles and thus sealed my faith and understanding that the Eucharist is a literal. To call it blasphemy and heresy is quite a stretch tbh.

@@antokaknee I’m no here to attack anyone, having a respectful and peaceful conversation. The issue, this person didn’t read the whole chapter, when Jesus said, eat my body and drink my blood, he was saying, eat his flesh is coming to him and drink his blood is believing in him. I have one question, when Jesus said few hours before his death, this is my body ( the bread) this is my blood ( wine ) did he drink and eat his own body ? In the Jews tradition of Passover, they had to drink the wine and eat the bread, if we gonna take it literally. Jesus ate is own flesh and drink is own blood.

@@antokaknee I call blasphemy and heresy bc it’s impossible that the human body of Christ is everywhere, the body of Christ is in heaven it can’t be in heaven and earth ( bread ) simultaneously. Otherwise the human body of Christ is no longer human, is divine, which contradict the hypostatic union of Christ, human nature and divine nature

@@MarvinAlvarez-fe4fl I see and understand your point you made because it does make logical sense when you put it that way. And yes I am also here to have a conversation. In regards to your first comment, I'd like to challenge you on the interpretation of John 6, because upon reading the whole thing, the Jews assumed the exact same position as you have, 'How can Jesus give us his flesh for us to eat?' And Jesus doubles down by saying "Truly, truly / Verily verily," (depending on translation) and he reiterates that, "unless you eat the flesh from the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life within you." Yes I do agree there is symbolism to this phrase since he did say in the beginning and it also connecting to the Last Supper and his Crucifixion , but then again there is so much more to it since Jesus does not back from his own claim and even turns to his Apostles saying, "Will you not leave too?" even when many of his disciples left upon their assumption of him literally eating his flesh. Thats the thing of why I believe the Eucharist is the literal Presence of Jesus, because for 1, he said so himself, and two he doubles down on this claim and challenges his followers if they will leave too like the many Jews that departed him from that day assuming that he gives his literal flesh and blood. Thats my overall quick take on this chapter which is what I am challenging you on.

@@MarvinAlvarez-fe4fl In regards to your second reply, I'd like to first start off by saying nothing is impossible with God so theologically speaking it can be, but I understand this is treading the line of Modalism and heresy I do realize that and people of the past have vastly discussed this too, please look at the Vatican 2 discussion where they did discuss the Eucharist topic in heavy debate as well, if you are willing to. Anyways, the Catholic Church teaches that the Eucharist is the 'presence' of God (who is both human and divine), this is where the well known term transubstantiation is used, because yes in mass they use the wafer and wine, while the material may be the same, the essence of it changes into the presence of God for us to eat and drink. Saint Thomas Aquinas, does a much better job of explaining this so please look it up if you are ever so willing. I do understand your standpoint and I am not here to invalidate it because I did have that standpoint for when discerning my faith, I am merely here to challenge you in your understanding and see if it stands up, biblically, historically, and spiritually. Of course take all my words with a grain of salt since I am a sinner just like you and bound to make mistake. As always, God Bless you and may he bring truth and grace to our lives and our deaths.

Go to the last supper in the New Testament and tell me what Christ himself said. Did Christ say this is a symbol or did he say “This is”.

Please read your bible. Go to what Christ said at the last supper. Did Christ tell his disciples that the should Take,eat this is a symbol or did he say “Take,Eat for this IS”.

⁠​⁠​⁠@@missyblu4983Thats not really a closed case argument for your position though. Simply because the wording can be read literally, doesn’t mean Jesus *meant* it literally. This is coming from the context of the fact most of His statements were symbolic towards a spiritual reality. In this case, the bread and wine calling towards His crucifixion that would occur the following day. The eucharist would mean nothing without the reality of the crucifixion, i.e why some claim it symbolic, because symbols point towards actual realities, they are not the reality themselves.

@@ricoparadiso some things yes they were parables. However there were other things that he said that did not need understanding.

Ask the early church fathers that brotha

HOW WOULD YOU SAY IT?. WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO SPEAK TO THAT MANY PEOPLE AND ABOUT GOD? I DOUBT THAT

He is likeable, you should definitely take notes

Bro you have the Buddha as your pfp. I think you have bigger things to worry about than how this priests keeps a crowd engaged

If you’ve got nothing nice to say, then don’t say anything at all. 🙂

The fact that Christ said not to live on bread alone doesn’t take away from John 6. Take care.

It's when the Nativity of the Lord is celebrated, Christ's Mass..aka Christmas is a celebration of his birth during the cold harsh winter when people are reminded of the Hope of the world.

Jesus was born on Christmas Day